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AP Lit Vocabulary: Week 16
Test 3-24-11
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English
12th Grade
03/24/2011

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Aborigine
Definition

(n) earliest known inhabitants of a region; natives

 

"Columbus was greeted by friendly ___________s."

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Adroit
Definition

(adj) skillful in a physical or mental way

 

"Her ________ turning of a blunder into a joke eased the tension in the room."

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Altruism
Definition

(adj) unselfish convern for welfare of others; thoughtfulness

 

"Far from being self-centered, he has a sincere _________."

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Animosity
Definition

(n) feeling of strong dislike or hatred; hostility

 

"John has an ___________ toward all foreigners."

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Apposite
Definition

(adj) suited to the purpose; appropriate, apt

 

"The scholar has an ______ quotation for any occasion."

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Bourgeois
Definition

(adj) person whose beliefs, practices are conventionally middle-class

 

"The ___________ customs of our society have been scorned by the socialists."

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Cerebration
Definition

(n) using one's brain; thinking

 

"Athletics is good for a college boy, but there has to be a little _________ too."

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Coadjutor
Definition

(n) an assistant; helper

 

"The executive's work was so heavy that we appointed a __________."

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Concomitant
Definition

(adj) accompanying; attendant

 

"He wants the job but not the _________ responsibility."

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Corroborate
Definition

(n) make the validity more certain; confirm, strengthen

 

"One ought not to accept such dangerous figures without some ___________."

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Culpable
Definition

(adj) deserving blame, censure; guilty

 

"The permitting of a bad act is as ____________ as doing it."

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Dichotomy
Definition

(n) division into two groups, parts or classes

 

"Man and woman: the ceaselessly interesting __________ of the human race."

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Dotage
Definition

(n) feeble and childish state due to old age; senility

 

"At the age of ninety-two, he was clearly in his ________."

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Enigma
Definition

(n) a perplexing, usually ambiguous statement; riddle

 

"I can't figure him out; he's a real _________."

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Fecundity
Definition

(n) fruitfulness or production; fertility

 

"In its lush __________, the land yielded three crops a year."

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Flamboyant
Definition

(adj) brilliant in form or color; showy, extravagant

 

"His speech and dress were so ___________ that they dazzled his audience."

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Forte
Definition

(n) special accomplishment or strong point; specialty

 

"Let John do the entertaining; that's his _________."

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Gamut
Definition

(n) the entire range or extent; scale

 

"The actress displayed the whole _________ of human passions."

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Hypothetical
Definition

(adj) assumed, supposed; theoretical

 

"A __________ solution will not always work in actual practice."

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Impetus
Definition

(n) anything that stimulates activity, motion; driving force.

 

"The initial ________ for going to college my be to find a job afterwards, but a more important motivation is to become well educated."

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